The plan as set forth in the previous post is officially abandoned. I’ve gone back and forth quite a bit regarding whether I can really afford to own the 9900K, which I only bought because it was on a significant sale as it was, but it’s still pricey for something that isn’t strictly necessary. I did “decide” to keep it, and plotted out how to use it, but I’ve waffled back in the other direction and filed for returns while the returning is still good. I just have too much stuff available for use that roughly fills the uses of virtual machines that would be deployable at relatively great additional cost.
On the topic of additional costs, I’ve finally started creating listings for selling things. I guess it’s just an ‘at this point in my life’ kind of feeling, there’s just too much disused viable technology in this basement and it would serve me better as money if it fetches any. Plenty of stuff will stay, specifically the actively in-use things like the primary server, Hina, and the gifted systems which I could probably sell but just don’t really feel like I can – Patrick and Marlon. The Common machine will also stay, unless it turns out it can find re-deployment in the office somehow. Hodoka is also staying. Nagi is staying because I think the system is to anemic to appeal to anyone else with a Celeron J1900 CPU permanently integrated and three PCIe 2.0 x1 slots as the only expansion.
It’s hardly an ending. Other than cash flow, it’s probably just going to get turned around to other, newer, hopefully more interesting computer stuff.
Hina remains an i5-9400T, 6 core cpu, with one 4 core Virtual Machine running on it and 2 cores dedicated to server functions (Unraid). Patrick is an FX8350 8 core system. Marlon is based around an i5-3570K. And the Common workstation runs a somewhat overclockable i7-2600K but it’s set back to stock for stability. Bean the Bean Canyon Nuc is still set up and available. And the basement itself has the Gigabyte GA-3955u that I never figured out a better name for that’s certainly the weakest computer I’ve got that I’d ever use frequently but… it fits so nicely on the back of the monitor…